The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Beauty will save the world.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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